Huntsville gazette., 1887-09-17
SOUTHERN Gl.EANINGS.


A remarka Die story was printed at At
,ansa, ga, cf the discovery on Hermit
Island, in the Chattahoochee river. of two
human beings, who are believed to have
been fugitive slaves.
rniiip Schembs, a Louisville (Ky.) baker,
committed suicide few DAYS ago while
conhned IN the county Jail, by cutting his
thr.at and the main artery in his lett arm
= Ia tin bucket
Hon. K. Reynolds, of Aberdeen, Miss.
died few days ago after two months,
illness and confinement TO his room and
bed. " MP iooih anu
"A Dooly County (Ga) TRAINER cauobt a
horned owl recently. Prior to his capture
ms owiship had feaste!t on ten goslings.
=. N. Fain, Of Car rollton. Ga. has in his
possession the Inaugural address delivered
by ex-Presir. r.ent Polk. November a. 1s3o
49,; M election to the gubernatorial
cnair of Tennessee. The address is hand
-hnely printed ON a piece of white silk,
1sx18 inches, and was presented to Cap
tain Fain's grandfather, and will, nc
doubt, pass through the hands of many
generations to come, as it is relic worth
preserving.
A movement among the brakeman of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad at Birming
ham, Ala, is on foot which, it is said, will
result in general strike over the whole
road and also take in men Of the Alabama
Great Southern railroad. The trouble
grows out of the refusal of the road to ac-
cede to the petition for pay for delayed
time-eighteen cents an hour being asked
when trains are over an hour late.
The school population Of Hot Springs,
Ark, is two thousand.
The landlords of Birmingham, Ala, have
raised rents fifty per cent.
Twenty cotton congresses will be Op
Grated in Mississippi this year.
Monkeytown is the name OF new post.
Office in Yazoo County, Miss.
A mill-owner at Ripley, Tenn, ships
weekly 100000 feet of poplar and oak lum
ber to Northern markets.
Fig trees are bearing a second crop of
fruit near Tallahassee, Fla.
The martins at Martinsville, Va, have
made systematic war upon the English
sparrows, and have completely driven
them out of the place.
The water from the Danic. spring, Geor-
gia, is said to be natural hair dye. Bath
ing gray hair with it will change the color
to black.
The smallest man in Tennessee is Daniel
Hance, of Madison County, who, although
thirty-seven years old, is not three feet
high, and weighs only sixty pounds. 1t is
said he has voice like fog horn.
Cvs@sn worms have appeared very gen
orally throughout the counties Of South
Alabama, and will do great damage to the
late cotton.
A batch of carrier pigeons liberated at
Little Rock, Ark, recently, few to New.
port, KY, a distance offve hundred miles,
in eleven hours and five minutes.
William L. Miller, of Charleston, S. c.,
has two immense iron Shells said to be the
first two shots fired at Battery Wa gner at
the beginning of the war. The shells were
never exploded; they weigh two hundred
pounds each.
Miss Cawhorn, of Carroll County, Tenn,
never learned to walk, and has to be car
ried about like a baby. She weighs 100
pounds. She is not lame, but simply
does not know how to use her lower
limbs.
Fifteen hundred students from the vari
Gus colleges in Georgia will take part in
and be one of the principal features of the
parade at Atlanta on the occasion ofPres-
dent Cleveland's reception,
Henry w. Grady, Of the Atlanta Con-
SttJUtIOU is SaIu 10 nave DSeu Ouec6u Dy Il
lecture manager $4,000 to tell the North
next winter the story of the New South.
William Aiken, who was Governor of
South Carolina in 1914, and served three
terms in Congress prior to 1867. died a few
days ago, aged eighty-one years. He
owned more slaves than any other man in
the State before the war, but opposed
secession.
he cin (toInna1 TOcarOh
Baugh, an Oglethorpe (Ga.) bachelor, ad-
vertsed for wife. He was deluged with
letters from all parts of the United States.
He distributed several of these letters
among his bachelor friends. At least
three weddings will be the result of this
correspondence.
A negro girl was bitten by a venomous
snake while gathering muscadines in Vine
vile, Ca, a few days since. The wound
caused her leg to swell rapidly, but
prompt application of whisky and turpel-
tine saved her.
Deputy United States Marshals Spurrier,
Young and Graves recently made raid
on the noonshiners Of Clay County, Tenn,
and report the arrest of several Illicit dis
tllers and the destruction of crooked es-
Establishments.
John Casteel shot and killed rattle
snake near the Mcon gold mine, four miles
northwest of Canton, Ga, last week,
which measured four feet four inches in
length and seven inches around, and had
nine rattles aud the inevitable button. He
was an ugly, angerous-looking fellow,
although he showed no signs of fight.
DR.. J. G. John, missionary secretary of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
states that the re;-rns from the special
collections for missions during the recent
week of prayer observed throughout the
Southern Methodist Church, have reached
$4,000.
An attempt was made few nights ago
to assassinate Wyatt Denny and Muck
Denny, his son, near New Middleton,
Tenn, while the two were returning from
Carthage. A shot was fired at short
range, but missed the men. The would-be
murderer escaped.
Tiney B. Thompson, member Of this
extensive lumber firm of j. J. Nc
Donough & Co., of Savannah, Ca, left
the city few nights ago with $2,oO OF
tho FIRMS money to make n tOur of some OF